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Problem

James has a striped and a polka dotted piece of wrapping paper (shown below).
Striped:
A rectangle with stripes has its left side labeled 3 meters and its top side labeled 6 meters.
Polka dotted:
A rectangle with polka dots has its left side labeled 4 meters and its top side labeled 4 meters.
If James wants to use the piece with the larger area, which wrapping paper should he pick?
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